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School Me: Sanger Gullwing

Originally Posted by Sharp Shooter

I think gull bottom is the proper name which is good so we don't mistake them for cp's.

okay, I'll bite...what is cp's?

Jerry, I'm not sure the gull bottom was ever in a flat deck. And I'm also not sure that the std. deck was in 73.

RCL,
I cannot comment on '73's, since I've never owned a Sanger (flat) newer than '72, HOWEVER ....my 1972 17'-10" was definitely a gullwing bottom and it had a kind of rare flat deck with a kind of turned up lip around the dash. Not like the earlier smooth flat deck. I've only seen (photo's) of 2-3 others like mine. I'll see if I have some better pics to post. Jocko

Originally Posted by jockorace

RCL,
I cannot comment on '73's, since I've never owned a Sanger (flat) newer than '72, HOWEVER ....my 1972 17'-10" was definitely a gullwing bottom and it had a kind of rare flat deck with a kind of turned up lip around the dash. Not like the earlier smooth flat deck. I've only seen (photo's) of 2-3 others like mine. I'll see if I have some better pics to post. Jocko

A friend of mine recently bought one like that. I had never seen one before. It is a Sanger for sure and the HIN indicates a 74. I don't think they made many like that. Perhaps someone here knows, maybe Billy B as he used to work for Sanger.

At about the same time they came out with a jet hull that was not the bubbledeck and it had the same type design on the deck. We were a Sanger dealer at Los Altos Marine in those years and we sold alot of those jets but today I never see them. We were a dealer about the last year of the so called "flat deck" hull. Then the gull came in the bubble deck. Very popular boat. We built one that did 104 in the quarter with a single carburated 454. Back then the Can Am class was huge and Jim Hall was the guy. We used his heads and camshaft combo and the boat hauled ass. For about 3 years we were kings at Skiers Beach outta Orowood on the delta with that boat. Aahh the memories.

So if you had a gull bottom with the flat style deck...it musta been a rare boat indeed.

I think that was there circle boat. At one time apba had a 5/8" max on the droped chine
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here's my brothers 73 17/10 straight deck sanger gullwing. If you look at the second pic of the bottom it has a concave shape all the way back to the plates. It also has a solid cav plate with a drop rear chine on either side. Ill take a pic of the boats bottom flipped over as were stripping it for a repaint.



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There ya go! That is the same hull that I had. VERY fast for a [technically] true flat hull. No BS, I ran a 461" BBC with a 6-71 blower 17% over with closed chamber heads, 2 1050 Dominators on Av-Gas. It spun a 37% gear 7,200 with a 15 pitch Cary prop. With a 15% slip factor that's 119 mph! This hull was nearly as efficient as a runner bottom. That Sanger was the best boat I ever owned. I was never beat for 5 years as a Lake racer in Lakeport, CA. (1987-1993)
I embarrassed alot of so-called "race boats"! Jocko

If that Sanger was never beaten at Lakeport, it is a good thing that you didn't run into my 22' Schiada that ran 65 MPH in '74 I used to cruse around Clear Lake just looking for guy like you I would of,,,...................................... Oh never mind

Steve

We built 17-10/18/6/18-10 raised deck, some throu the mid '70s. I built the plug and molds for the bubble deck circle racer 18-3 in 1970. I then built bubble deck drag hulls, runner bottom circle racers, and runner bottom drag hulls. During this time I built the pickle fork hydro plug and molds. I also built the v-bottom jet bubble deck and the mini cruiser. Most of the names now used were added after the production started. Some of the model names have been added recently.
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PRODUCTION FOREMAN 1970-1975